Alex Russell / is on Nostr

Trying to make the web work for *everyone*.

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2024-08-06 20:37:13

A question came into focus for me yesterday: is the success of Open Source for early-in-career folks building portfolios a contributor to frontend's ethical dessication?
OSS is "software for me, incidentally for thee"; does introducing that ethos to young programmers keep us from driving home the lesson that when you get paid to write code, your responsibilities are to users and customers?

2024-07-18 05:41:29

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@npub1d5z…m4fh How *do* they cope?
https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/112/805/890/340/472/342/original/149ae56646c887f6.png

2024-07-17 23:34:15

More of this, please:
https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/17/outer-sunset-tallest-apartments-plan/

2024-07-10 10:49:08

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The corollary is that you should not let SPA tech (client-side JS frameworks) *anywhere near* your tech stack until this analysis comes up green. And you should treat with intense suspicion anybody who bandies about phrases like "app-like" but is unfamiliar with how to write a Service Worker script from scratch.

2024-07-10 09:52:22

Folks, your [ microsite | blog | "AI experience" | e-commerce site | public service ] SHOULD NOT BE AN SPA *until and unless* you can prove that users have *very* deep sessions on average (think 50+ interactions with *the same* dataset). And even when you can, it's still a metrics-based question as to whether or not it makes sense. Mostly, it doesn't. So start here:
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

2024-01-18 22:41:07

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@npub1utv…87lr @npub1vd2…hred oh hey, anyone mention how totally broken Push Notifications are for iOS PWAs? It's a bloodbath:
https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/#:~:text=flight.%20%E2%86%A9%EF%B8%8E%20%E2%86%A9%EF%B8%8E-,Push%20Notifications,-were%2C%20without%20exaggeration